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 Kelly
O’Brien Rooney passed away on July 11, 2006 after a courageous,
four-year battle with breast cancer. She was 43.
Kelly and her husband, Sean, created an amazing and
dynamic family during their 15 year marriage, becoming parents to Casey,
Molly, Haley, Quinn and Jack. Even
during the most critical days of her intimate and personal battle with
breast cancer, Kelly’s number one priority was not herself – but her
children. Kelly’s number one question of her physicians was how she
could prevent her daughters from ever facing the relentless disease.
Because of this, the Kelly Rooney Foundation will focus intently on
research for
young women who have been identified as at-risk for breast cancer.
Known for her outpouring of love as a mother and wife;
her loyalty as a daughter, niece, cousin, sister or aunt; and her
hospitality as a neighbor or friend, Kelly served an incredible role
model for living life with charisma, joy, optimism, positive energy,
generosity, humor, grace and most
importantly, persistence and determination.
Kelly used a term, “God winks,” to describe unexpected
blessings and happy coincidences in life. Little did Kelly know that she
would embody the very phrase she coined -- by serving as a “God wink” to
generations of women whose lives may be saved by the incredible legacy
she left behind. |
